That should work, we have root:root 644 and that works. Have you tried commenting out all the javascript in /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg just to ensure it isn't a syntax error in the file itself causing it to complain?
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey <[email protected] > wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks for the reply. I have user and group setup with nobody:nogroup and > 755 permissions. Is this wrong? How do you have your permissions setup? > Currently we don't have it setup as a local app. Thanks for your help! > > Jeff > > > On 11/16/2011 11:31 AM, Rippl, Steve wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Donaldson Jeffrey < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I've been trying for a few days now to get Firefox to cache pages to /tmp >> locally for all users. I updated to Firefox 7, then edited the firefox.js >> in /etc/firefox/pref to include these lines - >> >> pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0); (supposed to tell FF not to >> worry about byteshift) >> pref("general.config.filename", "firefox.cfg"); >> >> I then took a customized firefox.cfg file and placed it in >> /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1. >> >> > > This is what we do (to lock down network settings and the like) and it > works. The only problems I can think of are permissions issues on > /usr/lib/firefox-7.0.1/firefox.cfg (can the user read it?) and whether you > have an error in the JavaScript in the .cfg file? Then again this is all > run on the server for us (no local apps), are you running Firefox as a > local app? > > For what it's worth, we found that many apps and even the Gnome desktop > itself didn't work that well with nfs mounted home folders for the > students. We've since moved to having real local folder on each of the > LTSP server (we have multiple load balanced) and we use csync ( > http://www.csync.org/) to synchronize those with the central file server > on login/logout and every 10 minutes they're logged in. Performance went > up dramatically and the load on the file server is almost nothing. > > > > > -- > Steve Rippl > Technology Director > Woodland Public Schools > 360 841 2730 > > > -- > Regards, > Jeff Donaldson > Data Services Manager > Newark Charter School(302) 369-2001 ext:[email protected] > > -- Steve Rippl Technology Director Woodland Public Schools 360 841 2730
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